St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04

same. 1neTe are, lnueou, various is
OF power in the makeup of our nature,
which it is our duty to cOvet, accumu-
late and hold fast. AS the immortal
Claiming has pointed out long ago,
there is so-called inward power, the
most precious of all possessions, power
over ourselves: power to withstand
trial, to bear suffering, to front danger,
power over pleasure and pain, power to
follow our convictions, however resisted
by menace and Scorn, the power at last
of calm reliance in seasons of darkness
and storms. Again, to proclaim the
faith that is in me boldly and without
disguise, there is, sir, another power,
which one might call the outward
power, the power by which the mind
tfiumphs over matter, presses into its
service the subtlest and strongest ele-
merits, makes the winds, fire and steam
its ministers, rears cities like this youth
fpl giant of the American Northwest,
es<sns path through the ocean, and
makes the wilderness blossom as the
rase. Now, these forms of power
are glorious distinctions Of our race,
nor can we prize them too highly. There
is still another power, the power over
our fellOw-men, the power that the all
archist-socialist is so afraid of. How
ever. for my part, am not to condemn
even this universally. There is in the
world OF organized progress truly no.
bic sway of man over man; one which
it is our honor to seek and exert; which
in fact is chief recompenSe of virtue.
Irefer to the quickening influence of a
good and great mind over other minds,
by which it brings them into sympathy
with itself. Far from cOndemning this.
l am anxious as a socialist to hold it
forth as the pureSt glory which virtuous
ambition can propose. The ambition in
a man of awakening. enlightening and
eievating his fellow friend may with
peculiar fitness be called praisewOrthy
for there is no agency of God SO benefi-
cent and sublime as that which he ex-
erts on rational natures, and by which
he aSsimilates them to himself. This
spiritual power in man is worth all
other; this sway over souls is the surest
test of greatness. 1t speaks with voice
that is heard all over the world, in spite
OF all assertions to the contrary. These
men are the two SovereignS of the earth:
at their feet l place myself. They, and
40 others, share in the royalty of Jesus
Christ.
So much to my socialistic friends in
this city. AS to poll
tics, l declare l,.y self still a Democrat.
| believe i'll Democracy as an organized
system. 1t is democracy that makes
q nation of men, instead of a nation
OF classes. Democracy, no matter how
many new parties spring up, has to-day
vitality more intense than ever Re-
member that government by is always
government for. Why then the inces-
SAINT talk of the necessity of creating
new parties? In Europe. as everybody
knows, the institutions are not by the
q fnr. 40 SC, ~
here, where the republic itself is based
upon individual political equality. Re-
member that up to one time in human
history Democracy has been the goal of
progress! Democracy rests on Christi
anity. which taught the natural unity
and equality OF man. and the means to
realize it. The secret of all the political
teubleS in this grand republic is this, that
persons are on trial, but not the princi-
pies and institutions. Not that the ideal
democracy is yet established; not that
failures and shortcomings do not
abound. The American republic hay
ing at length cast out the alient element
of slavery, is now more than ever capa-
BILE of securing for itself full and con-
sistent development. The question of
the adjustment of wealth to national
life will in time be solved. but l believe
twill be solved by the two great par
ties. To overthrow these two parties,
which. by the way, l fail to see why
should not endure thousand
years yet, there must be afound
power more universal than
the American people! Progress,
like the sun, goes on forever, without
haste, yet without rest. Another thing.
Why this internal preaching of dyna-
mite, when man attains in
A MIR
value! Said the wife of the con-
denfned anarchist, Parson, the other
day in Chicago: 81 came into this
world endowed with the faculty of en-
jOying every feature of existence
Yes, so does everybody. But the fact
is that bombs are of no enjoyment at
all, l think. That receiving insults,
blows. rough conduct, Islander, lies, ETC..
coming as they might from capitalists
as well as socialists and anarchists, are of
equally as little enjoyment. Lucid
expressions don't carry the
MSrld on fSday in as time easily zone as DI it
You think. perhaps, that have changed
"a good deal since last year. Yes, / have
tiiat-but for the better. | have changed
so far as to having become more sober.
IsteH you, after this l shall not suffer
myself to be bulldczed by either work.
ingmen or capitalists.
i learned a lesson last year that has
been of more value to me than all my
studies combined. | learned that it is
wrong to hate man because he is rich
81 making of the lahoring man saint
because he is poor. | have learned that
tlie-capitalistic world itself has become
converted to belief in the justice of
the principles of labor. and that